Thursday Seminar Series: Durga P Mohapatra, PhD

Dr. Mohapatra is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Anesthesia at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. His lab is investigating distinct modifications in TRP and Nav channels in mammalian sensory neurons by a variety of growth factors, cytokines and peptides released at elevated levels from bone-metastasized prostate/breast cancer cells & the surrounding tumor microenvironment. Dr. Mohapatra's host will be Dr. Mark Zylka.